Books for the house as a gift at Christmas
Post from EditorialsHere are some suggestions for a gift at Christmas: books can provide creative ideas for decorating home, or simply to travel with the imagination.
Give books as a gift for Christmas
We are close to Christmas, absorbed in work, chores and responsabilities, every year we are forced to buy gifts for friends and family quickly and be content with what is in the stores.
If you organize yourself a little earlier, you can buy interesting and useful gifts, saving time and money.
Among the many categories of items that you can give as a gift, one never goes out of fashion, especially among fans: the book; despite the advent of e-books, it remains one of the gifts that is always a pleasure to receive.
But what is the genre to choose to avoid an error?
Novels, thrillers, investigation are just some of the categories to go over but, if we want to give an insights on new trends on furnishing, tips for home remodel or just take a look at the latest achievements of villas or apartments by the most cutting-edge designers, why not to give an illustrated book that deals with these issues?
Books for the house
Let's start with the first proposal: Happy Home. Everyday magic for a colorful life is the book written by Charlotte Hedeman Guéniau founder of RICE, a Danish company that produces items for the home.
The book's purpose is to provide tips, advices and ideas on how to make the home environment cozy and funnny with the use of accessories, objects or simply colors. Published by Logos is for sale at a price of € 24.95.
The second book is reported because in line with the trends of the moment: ecology, reuse and lots of creativity.
The guide consists of 272 pages, is published by Mondadori and has a cost of € 24.90.
The taste is the first factor to influence the furnishing of a house in country style or contemporary, minimalist or redundant, the living space should fully respect the character and taste of those who experience it.
For this reason, the choice of a book that could serve as inspiration for those who come to buy or renovate the house, should be thoroughly familiar with the recipients.
In the event, however, that you are not familiar with the taste, but you have a general idea of how you want to decorate the house, Retro Home by Sorell Katherine is a viable solution to provide ideas and advice on solutions, on furniture to buy to give to your apartment a retro imprint, ranging from Art Nouveau to the fifties, the seventies.
Upholstery and design objects, useful addresses, dyes and colors: the book contains everything you need to guide the choice.
The book is on sale at a cost of € 19.95.
To those who do not need to decorate the house but simply wants to travel with the imagination by reading the pages of a novel that has marked the history of French literature, and not only that, you can give Life, a user's manual, by Georges Perec .
While reading the book you can visit virtually the apartments in a building in Paris, getting to know in this way the furniture, the shape and arrangement of the rooms, as well as the life and habits of the characters that inhabit it.
The book is published by Rizzoli and is on sale in the base version, priced at € 9.90.
It exists, however, a reworking by Enzo Mari, consisting of a wooden box in which, in addition to the original novel, contains 18 books, as many chapters of the book, molded in the shape of puzzle pieces to be reassembled.
It is a true work of art signed by the artist sold at a price of € 300.00.
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